They stole the "joys of life".
A photographer and former director of the South Ural Historical Museum announced the disappearance of the exhibition works.
More than 800 photographs dedicated to the South Urals could disappear from the historical museum, says Vladimir Bogdanovsky.
According to him, in September the storage facility was flooded, some photographs were damaged and other works without documents were taken to the Svoboda office center. According to the photographer, among the many boxes he saw the title of the exhibition "Life Joys" consisting of 55 photographs. The remains of the damaged works, according to his information, were later sent to a landfill.
"No one knows anything, but there are only 10 of my boxes - eight big and two small. The "joys of life" were stolen from me. The museum is silent.
The museum denied the allegations. They stated that there was no flooding of the place, and no damage was caused to the institution's property. In addition, the original photographs were never transferred to the museum: the institution produced tablets and organized exhibitions.
According to the management, the exhibitions "Simchut Haim" and "The Crimson Dawn" were deleted back in 2007 and 2013, when Bogdanovsky himself was the director of the museum. The institution does not know where the decommissioned tablets are now.
The police confirmed that they recorded two statements from the former manager. They are tested.